Rainbow Ruckus 3/25: Fog Holler, Fancy Hagood, Julien Baker & TORRES

Every week, Rainbow Rodeo brings you the best new queer country music! Listen to this playlist on Spotify and Tidal! Thanks to Elliott for making a parallel list on Apple Music! Listen to the parallel list on Tidal. Missed a week? TA Inskeep is generously keeping an archive of all music featured on this Spotify playlist.

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• Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters greet the day with "Good Morning, Sunshine" a gentle groover of a song that celebrates the blessings of the morning. The song comes off the band's next album, out next week.
• Fancy Hagood gives Lucy Silvas' tune "My Old Habits" a '90s country makeover. Hagood's sweet voice and the song's rambling groove gives Dacus' introspection a refreshing lightness. The song will be featured on the deluxe reissue of Hagood's magnificent American Spirit, out next week.
• Julien Baker and TORRES, each known for their weighty tunes, team up for "Tuesday." The song takes on a surprisingly traditional country cast with pedal steel and a four-on-the-floor beat. However, the production has a cavernous quality that grounds the song firmly in 2025, even as it delivers a timeless tale of love lost.
• I got tipped off to Fog Holler by VestigialLung on Mastodon, who thought they found them through Rainbow Rodeo – so perhaps Fog Holler is simply a timeless entity that has been here all along. Either way, the proudly queer string band quartet gives us a spritely ditty with the elegant "Bodga's Diner"
• Rodeo Boys bring us a punk rock anthem of yearning on "All American Man" – the perfect blend of '90s angst and '00s emo with a dash of melodic punk...not to mention the heart-on-sleeve commitment required of all good country songs.